Fable

By Ross Miller James Ransom-Wiley: Post-Christmas shopping spree! I got Microsoft Points, PSN bucks and *gulp* Wii Points to redeem ... suggestions? (I'm thinking save my Wii Points for Cave Story.)Jason Dobson: Writing our "Best of the Rest" posts reminded me that I still have a few races to complete in G...

By Ross Miller Ross Miller: Holy crap I'm done with school ... but more importantly, I beat Prince of Persia (confession: loved it). Now onto beating Fable 2 so that I can ponder whether or not to (a) start over as a bad person, (b) turn into a bad person by devastating an entire city or two or (c) delay this decisi...

By Alexander Sliwinski Lionhead is going to need a little bit more time before it starts accepting the 800 ($10) fare to Knothole Island. According to the Fable 2 expansion's Xbox.com page, the new land won't be available next week due to "unexpected technical difficulties" until "late January."

By Ludwig Kietzmann At least, that's what we imagine the Fable II designer will be doing in a talk entitled, "Lionhead Experiments Revealed." As part of the game design track at 2009's Game Developers Conference, which will run from March 23rd to March 27th in San Francisco, Peter Molyneux's lecture promise...

By Jason Dobson The Daily Telegraph has thrown two pence in with its own "best of" video game round up, naming its top 50 games of 2008. Like X-Play before it, the conservative UK newspaper named Lionhead's Fable 2 as the best game to come along in the last 12 months, romancing the crown out from under near-wi...

By Griffin McElroy The last launch window we'd heard for Lionhead's upcoming DLC expansion for Fable 2 was "mid-December". Naturally, we anticipated that the actual release date would be around the ides of the month -- however, Lionhead recently confirmed that the "Knothole Island" expansion (and ancil...

By Griffin McElroy The moment you've all been anxiously anticipating is finally here! The winners of X-Play's "Best of 2008" awards have finally been announced -- though perhaps a bit prematurely, as Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree won't be hitting store shelves 'til next week. Fable 2 took the gold in th...

By Randy Nelson Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Business Lionhead's headcount is down by one as Fable 2 lead designer, Richard Ham, has left the company to take on the role of creative director at Splash Damage, the UK-based developer of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Ham, who has worked on games such as Th...

By Randy Nelson The patch will address a number of issues, but the ones that most players - and there are a lot of Fable 2 players - have been affected by (namely the Monk's Quest and Bowerstone furniture shop glitches) will thankfully be thoroughly nixed. Lionhead says of the Monk's Quest bug: "This will fi...

By Ross Miller click to embiggen Lionhead has released a handful of new images from its upcoming Fable 2 premium DLC, Knothole Island. In addition to two more shots of the snowy tundra environment, the screenshots offer a free-floating (if they're not going to stop using it, why should we?) glimpse of th...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Microsoft also expressed satisfaction with software sales, with Gears of War 2, Fable 2 and Lips (yes, the karaoke game) leading the way. We'll have to wait until November's NPD results are out until we can see just how well each of those titles fared.

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Peripherals, Business In case your wallet isn't hurting enough from this weekend (or you simply decided to take the frugal route with Black Friday shopping), Amazon has un...

Meanwhile, we've been enjoying the rise of the wrpg this gen with Obilvion, Fallout 3, Fable 2 and Mass Effect (I'm sure there are others too). 3 hearts vote down vote up Report. Dante G. Dante G: Nov 25th 2008: 5:26PM ...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Free-floating news, everybody! Lionhead Studios has revealed the first downloadable content pack for its dichotomous role-playing adventure, Fable 2. The "Knothole Island" pack introduces an island encased in snow, it's only hope for warm resolution resting on the shoulders of you...

Playing Fallout 3 or Fable II was distracting what with the diesel engine that powers the dvd drive. 2 hearts vote down vote up Report. GhostofGrendel. GhostofGrendel: Nov 19th 2008: 3:55PM. Everything I've read so far has said that the ...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business October hardware sales in North America were not good for Sony, with all three of its consoles seeing at least an 18% drop, according to this month's NPD report. The Nint...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online, Polls As in, "treasure," only with a thick accent. Scott Ramsoomair always seems to have the magic touch; once again, his VG Cats strip claims the top spot of this week's webcomic wrapup. Out of all the things our Fable 2 dog has discovered in...

By Ross Miller James Ransom-Wiley is wondering how long the clichéd quest to become a Fabled hero will stave off the Far Cries of the deadly creatures that tempt from the exotic plains of Africa. ... Also: Let's get those bats going Philthies! (We're looking at you, J-Roll, to get it started in Game 3!) Jason D...

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Podcasts We know, we know, it's such a terrible problem to have, but we really are being overwhelmed with good games. Dead Space and FarCry 2 get the bulk of our time, but there's a little Fable 2 discussion in there for you as well.

By Joystiq Staff We've gone kind of Fable II crazy at X3F this week. We've got some special Fable II features, including a look at the game's environments as well as its enemies. We also dedicated this week's episode of the Xbox 360 Fancast to the game. Oh, and we're also giving away six copies of the game. You migh...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Well, so much for our (admittedly flimsy) theory that the well-mannered Lionhead figurehead is secretly a robot. Peter Molyneux has told CVG that reviews for Fable 2, his long awaited RPG epic, have triggered an emotional response within him. "I found myself becoming incredibly emotion...

By Kyle Orland Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, RPGs "While Fable 2 is now 'all grown up,' its new scale and gameplay elements expose some key issues that other RPGs of this scope have spent years ironing out." (9) "There are almost constant niggling annoyances that persist from the very second t...

By Alexander Sliwinski We don't know if it was Microsoft's leash on designer Peter Molyneux or if Lionhead Studios finally focused its talent after a decade in existence, but Fable II apparently delivers a solid, enchanting action-RPG experience. X3F has a glowing non-numerical review covering many of the ga...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Arcade, Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action Taking a cue from Peter Molyneux's Fable II review, The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai's developer, James Silva, took the opportunity to review his own game before its release. Silva declares that it's inexcusable for his game to have...

By Joystiq Staff Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, Meta (about Joystiq) In honor of the new PSP Brite moniker, we present the Lite Brite. Here's what we'll be playing this weekend. Be sure to let us know what games will be occupying your time! Alexander Sliwinski: Well, after a debilitating incid...

By Joystiq Staff It really feels like this week belongs to Xbox Live Arcade. The whole month really, considering a slew of AAA titles are on the way. This week we got Bionic Commando Rearmed, which is everything a Bionic Commando fan could hope for. If you haven't already, definitely give it a try. You can check o...

By Richard Mitchell Rumor: A new Chief'less Halo announced at E3 Next Halo stars Dom DeLuise.Rumor: Countdown site for next Bungie announcement Looks supa fake to usCreate-a-Henchman in Fable 2 Who knew it was these easy to get henchmen?New video for The Maw

By Ross Miller ESRB to curb early game leaks UK short on skilled video game labour IGN introduces us to some Fable 2 NPCs BioWare considering Wii, PSP development Rock Band Weekly: Weezer gets set to Doolittle Multiwinia preview shows off pixelated mayhem Tales of Vesperia gets demo on Xbox Live

By Ross Miller Lionhead's Molyneux open to revisiting his past catalog Microsoft hires former Nintendo exec to expand Euro footprint Indie film to take on mythical, 'evil' arcade game Lionhead releases fifth Fable 2 video diary Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard give voices to 'Iron Man' video game

By Ross Miller Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360 Mad scientist extraordinaire Peter Molyneux has made a great discovery! In an interview with GamersGlobal, the Fable 2 designer talked about an AI-focused experiment codenamed Dmitri. The experiment became a game six months ago after "a discovery w...

By Richard Mitchell The best and worst of GDC08 plus interviewsFancast Xtra: Microsoft GDC08 blogger breakfast Bribing us with bacon, for shame!Fancast Xtra: Peter Molyneux Interview at GDC08 Listen to our Peter Molyneux interview or ...X3F interviews Peter Molyneux about Fable 2, BC, XNA

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, RPGs, GDC Want to know why Peter Molyneux's replacing your mini-map with a breadcrumb trail? Whether or not his character has unprotected sex? If same-sex marriage is still on the table? Journey on, dear reader, journey on.

By Richard Mitchell Xbox 360 Fancast 055 -- Refresh Advance Wars on the big screen News: First downloadable episode perhaps?Bungie talks Halo 3 melee fix and new playlists Melee evolvedThe EndWar book is lying to you Copious amounts of demon blood spilledRumor: Fable 2 ships May 30

By Alexander Sliwinski Dungeon Hero's title is supposed to be a bit ironic. See, the thing in Dungeon Hero is that you're a a human, but you're not actually good, and the dungeon isn't bad. Through a fantastic opening sequence (found after the break) you'll get the premise of what's going on. A dungeon is just another...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, AdventureAccording to Peter Molyneux, death in Fable 2 will be different than what we've seen in any other game. Fan website Loinhead (not a typo) recently landed an interview with Molyneux and they had a little chat about Fable 2, Black a...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Though his calm and and exceedingly eloquent manner might suggest a more languid pace, Peter Molyneux wastes little time when raising expectations -- and he knows it. "I'm going to get into trouble for saying this," says the British game designer before launching into his Fable 2 GDC pres...